LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2073, 1 February 1898, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The number of arrivals in the colony during'December last was 2143, and of departures 1036. An English mail was distributed at the Te Aroha Post Office on Saturday. Lord Onslow, is suffering from nervous breakdown from over work.

An old lady of. seventy ascended the trig last week and enjoyed the trip immensely.

The N Z Shipping Company’s cargo steamer ‘ Mat aura, went ashore at Seal Cove, in the Straits of Magellan, and became a total wreck, os the 12th January.

Te encourage the perusal of sound literature the subscribers te the News will, from this date, be entitled to the use of the Te Aboka News Library Fbee. Time allowed for reading, one week. If boobs are kept beyond a week own penny per diem will be charged by way of fine. Parcels of the latest works of fiction received weekly from Spreokley's, Auckland. Mr Ed. Hoilahd, of the firm of Boiland Bros and Co., bicycle manufacturers, visited Te Aroha yesterday. That gentleman was to have been at Messrs Mclndoe and Hill's saddlery shop on Saturday night, but, owing to pressure of business at the Thames, was unable to reach Te Aroha in time. 3e reports business as being good Thames way.

In another column appears Messrs Devey and Son’s advertisement, from which it will be seen that that enterprising firm, whose new and extensive workshops were opened the other day, are prepared to execute orders in every line in cabinet-making, carpentry, etc, and conduct funerals at a moderate charge. Mr Yickermann is expected to visit Te Aroha sometime this week, when he will prepare an estimate of cost of constructing a swimming bath in connection with the old reservoir.

The Wellington Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Journalists is taking steps to organise a system of eo-operative aid, mutual help and social intercourse among journalists, also to establish & Press Club in Wellington.

The rhea grass on the experimental farm at Momohaka is doing well, and the department hopes in duo course to distribute roots for cultivation. The fibre is worth about £BO per ton at present, and the cost of cultivation £4 per ton. The yield is about 28001 b per acre.

Among our visitors we notice Mr Vause, who is taking a trip for his health, For some years he was stationed here as Postmaster, and is now at Te Aw&mufcu. We hope his well-earned holiday will benefit him.

We have to call attention to Mr James Bell’s card in another column. Mr Bell has the reputation of being an excellent workman, and a stylish tailor—a reputation, we may add, thoroughly well deserved. It is reported here that the Czar has stated that affairs in the East had long laid heavily on his heart, especially the difficulties with Japan, but now, thank God, all had cleared, and no conflict was to be feared.

We have pleasure in calling attention to Messrs Mackay and Pratt’s advertisement in another column. This firm do a very large business in Paeroa, and‘are gradually extending their business In other directions. As will be seen from a paragraph elsewhere, the firm are to hold a saie in Te Aroha in the course of a day or two.

In consequence of excessive outside competition in the printing trade, the Proprietors of the News have made arrangements for more economical working by the introduction of improvement? in the Printing Department. The Foreman of that department has received instructions to execute all orders at Auckland prices, less carriage.

Comtoissicner Tunbridge, accompanied by luspector Hickson, visited Te Aroha yesterday. They stayed at O’Meagher’a Family Hotel. The Cabinet has authorised the expenditure of the following amounts, among others, £2BOO for tlxe Grahams-town-Te Aroha railway.

Mr Dave Pearson, who has earned quite a reputation for etoppiug runaway horses, arrested a young horse on the bridge last night just on the eve of its developing into a ring-tailed scorcher of a bolter.

In the fourth test match Trott won the toss with his usual luck, -and Australia went in on a fair wicket. Total 275 for seven wickets, of which Clem Hill made 182, not out.

Miss Swanhilda Bulats, a New Zealland girl, ha 9 returned to London, having obtained an appointment on the staff of the ‘ Daily Mail,’ an opening in journalism which is eagerly coveted by young writers. There is money in old New Zealand stamps. One with no watermark, of the value of 2d, blue, perforated and unused, fetched JOl7 at Messrs Veiitnor. Bull and Con per s auction at St Martin’s Town Hall. We hdve to call attention to Mr John Wood’s, butcher, notice to the public in another column, in which he intimates his intention of keeping his Bhop open every, day in the week, to suit the convenience of bis numerous customers.

; At a general meeting of the Christchurch Progressive Liberal Association the following resolutions were carried: —l. “That this meeting affirms tho desirableness o! the unrestricted admission of women to every possible trade and occupation, on the basis of equal pay for equal work.” 2 That this meeting desires the speedy recognition by the law of marriage as an economic partnership between husband and wife on equal terms.”. It may not matter to us, when the breath has left our bodies, whether we are remembered or not. In this busy, restless, nerve-destroying world what we sigh for is rest; peace, perfect peace. Alike to the noble savage and the most finished product of civilisation that longing is common. Does not the Red Indian look forward to the future wioii the calmness of a perfect belief in his traditional paradise, when he shall have crossed the river, and shall sit in the shade of the trees. AM the same ho cherishes an ambition to live in the memory of posterity, and seeks to purchase immortality by the number of pale-face scalps adorning his Squaw’s wigwam. In these humdrum times; whatever our ambitions, tomahawking, and scalping those from we differ in opinion is strictly forbidden. The- idea of a gorgeous funeral satisfies the craving of some minds for posthumous honours ; but we could not help thinking as we turned over Mr Macnicol’s, of Whitaker Street, Te Aroha, collection of photographs and desigus for these touching and beautiful memorials of those who have gone before, that a simple cross in white marble is perhaps as appropriate a pledge of remembrance as the wit of man ever devised.

The O'beaV' Fibe.— -Tonson GfcarKck & Co. are selling their stock at Hoffman’s Buildings, Elliott-street, behind the Opera House. Ten Thousand Pounds worth of C&rpets. Linoleum, Bedsteads, Fenders, Eattan Furniture. Overmanilea* Bedding, Drawing Boom Suites, ami Furnishing Drapery. Such a sale as this wild be has never been held in Auckland.—Advt;